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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, "What Would You Do If You Were President?".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who replaces Ambassador Sears in Sarkhan?
(a) Marie MacIntosh
(b) Gilbert MacWhite
(c) Joe Bing
(d) Mrs. Sears

2. What is Sears' overall assessment of his situation in Sarkhan?
(a) We're in good shape here.
(b) We are all becoming communists
(c) We are in the weeds
(d) We are beloved friends of the Sarkhanese

3. Why does Sears say he dislikes Maggie Johnson?
(a) She is sleeping with the servants
(b) She is too tall
(c) She is a communist spy
(d) She agrees with the native press too much and brings newspapermen to his office

4. When Hillandale leaves the northern province, what percentage of them vote for Magsaysay?
(a) 15
(b) 0
(c) 95
(d) 100

5. What example of "tinsel" does U Maung Swe offer?
(a) Items used to decorate Christmas Trees in the Sarkhanese homes
(b) Promises to Burma of a mobile floating dredge which turned out to be a rusting old stationery dredge which even the Americans could not get to work
(c) News coverage of the Miss Sarkhan Pageant
(d) Rotten produce flown in from San Francisco

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hillandale do when he reaches the northern province?

2. What question does Father Finian ask that surprises the Burmese men?

3. During what season did the incident of the Royal Sarkhanese Air Base happen?

4. What is the first step that the friends decide to take?

5. Why did the Ambassador resent this move?

(see the answer key)

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